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Gazal Ka Safar -- A rare GOPIO Event |
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Friday, 06 May 2011 15:33 |
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Global Organization of People of India Origin, also known as GOPIO, launched its Atlanta chapter with lots of fanfare on April 23 2011 in newly opened Season’s Event Center in Patel Brothers Plaza in Decatur, Georgia.
The first half of the program was devoted to inauguration ceremony and recognizing of 18 prominent Indian-Americans from all walks of life and were awarded plaques by Honorable Sanjiv Arora, the India’s Consul-General from Houston.
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After the delicious dinner, the second half of the program started. It was called “Ghazal ka Safar” which lasted for about two hours. It was presented by Milind Oak of Niche Entertainment. Dattaprasad Ranade and Savani Ravindra were the two ghazal singers for the evening.
Dattaprasad may not be as famous as Ghulam Ali, Mehdi Hassan and Jagjit Singh, or Savani as Noor Jehan, Chitra Singh and Lata Mangeshkar, but both are very talented singers and have released a few CDs of their own. Dattaprasad learned ghazal singing from none other than great Mehdi Hassan.
They were joined by Kedar Gulvani on violin and Amod Kulkarni on tabla. When the artists sang their usual ghazals from Ghalib, Daag and other renowned poets, Milind (in absence of script writer Salim Arif) narrated how and when ghazal was originated, how it became popular and how its style changed over the years.
Dattaprasad sang ghazals of Gulam Ali (Hangama hai kyun barpa), Pankaj Udas (Aye gam-e-zindgi kuch to mashwara de), and Jagjit Singh (medley of tum kitna musara rahi ho,ahista ahista and hoton se chhu le). He also sang Ghalib and Daag ghazals, among them dil-e-nadan duet with Savani was impressive.
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At one point some one from the audience announced that the chief guest Mr. Arora is a ghazal lover and knows little bit of shayari and was asked to present a few. Mr. Arora obliged the crowd and took the mic. He said that in High School he did not learn Urdu reading and writing and regretted. As a diplomat he learned Arabic but not Urdu. Mr. Arora’s first couplet was by Daag “Nahin hai haseen Daag yaaron se keh do, ke aati hi Urdu aate jaate”). He then recited 2 more couplets and left as he was getting late.
After Mr. Arora left, most of the guests also departed. Only very few diehard ghazal lovers remained till the end. This was the time when both singers took requests from the audience and sang them to their heart’s content.
When Dattaprasad sang ghazal-mastreo Mehdi Hassan’s four classical ghazals back-to-back (zindgi mein to sabhi pyar karte hai, ranjish hi sahi, mujhe tum nazar se gira to na donge, pyar bhare do sharmile nain), he won everyone’s admiration. With equal proficiency he also sang Jagjit Singh’s famous ghazals (aahista, aahista”, “hoton se chhu lo” and “baat nikli to”) in medley.
Savani also captured every one’s heart when she sang aaj jaane ki zid na karo, and Lata Mangeshkar-Madan Mohan’s famous ghazals ( Aaj socha ansoo bhar aaye, Unko shikayat hai and woh ho hum mein hai.) She also sang Asha Bhosle’s 2 famous ghazals (Justaju jiski thi and dil cheez kya hai) from Umrao Jaan superbly.
When the program ended, it was past midnight and these fans left the hall and were still humming the lyrics that echoed throughout the evening in the hall. |
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